https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/08/10/is-covid-losing-its-fangs-and-becoming-more-like-the-flu/ > Today’s hyper-transmissible strain of the COVID-19 virus has sent cases soaring across the country. But rising deaths — the grim marker of earlier dangerous surges — haven’t kept pace, and the average risk of dying from an infection is dropping to levels almost as low as seasonal influenza, leading epidemiologists say. > Is the COVID virus — that has killed more than 1 million Americans — losing its fangs?